Fix to distribution builder available

Sarah sarahr at genesearch.com.au
Sun Aug 3 22:30:00 EDT 2003


Hi Wolfgang,

I just built a test app for OS X with sub-stacks saved separately and 
here is what I got:
Standalone_MacOSX_Test	(a folder)
	Test		(my app - worked perfectly)
	data		(empty folder)

I right-clicked (control-clicked) on the Test app and selected "Show 
Package Contents"
Here is what I found (the contents of each folder is shown indented):

Contents
	Info.plist			(open this in a text editor to check the settings)
	MacOS
		data
			One.rev_components		(My main stack was called One)
				Two				(my sub-stack)
		Revolution
	pbdevelopment.plist
	PkgInfo
	Resources
		Revolution.icns
		Revolution.rsrc
		RevolutionDoc.icns

So Rev is putting the sub-stacks where they need to be, and it knows 
where they are when the app runs. The only error as far as I can see is 
creating an unnecessary data folder in the application's main folder.

If you don't mind that Get info doesn't give the data you entered in 
the Dist Builder, then just delete the empty data folder and your app 
is ready to go. If you want to change icons or fix up any of the 
copyright or version info, then you will have to use the Finder to get 
to the info.plist and perhaps the Resources folder. You don;t ned to 
use any Unix commands and the app will work straight after being built.

I hope this helps.

Cheers,
Sarah
sarahr at genesearch.com.au
http://www.troz.net/Rev/


On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 04:55  am, Wolfgang M. Bereuter wrote:

>
> On Donnerstag, Jul 31, 2003, at 17:50 Europe/Vienna, Alex Rice wrote:
>
>> Well do you want to get the job done, or nurse old wounds? ;-)  It 
>> requires no Unix expertise. This really falls into the packaging and 
>> distribution realm, which you are responsible for anyways.
>>
>> But re: your screenshot above, maybe I don't understand what the 
>> problem is and you should file a bugzilla report. If that's the case 
>> then I apologize for jumping to conclusions.
>>
>> However, I still think that everyone distributing software for OS X 
>> needs to learn about application bundles on OS X.
>
> I think thats a missunderstandig now...
> rev did the build correct the standalone(engine) and the others stacks 
> in the data folder:
> * correct in OS9
> * correct in WIN
> * correct in Linux
> * wrong in OSX
> (I thin Linux is not so far way from bsd Unix, but its more far away 
> from OS 9 or WIN and both are build correct; please correct me if I m 
> wrong...)
>
> and rev 2.0 did this build correct in OSX too...
> that is what you can see on the other screenshot...
>
> So this has imho nothing to do with packaging and distribution process 
> in OSX, which will start after that.
> Its a bug in the new (updated) distribution builder. An all the other 
> features of the distribution builder like icons did work in older 
> releases. Why does all that no work in the "fixed distribution 
> builder"?




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